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I have seen this issue raised before and no solution was given.
I did a search with puppysearch.
I experience the same issue and not only in 410 frugal, but already before.
Now I start to have this also on another PC running a just installed 410 full HDD

The issue occurs when a restart jwm is done.
Such a restart is needed when new software is installed.
There are instances when after several restarts of jwm the applet is again in the system tray.

Béèm,

disabling the desktop hotplug support in puppy event manager also disables the freememapplet. Check that the desktop hotplug support is ticked, restart x-server [or reboot] and it should appear in a few moments. If not then there must be another issue that I am not aware of. Advise if you solve it.

The hotplug support is active.
I experience as well on the frugal install as on the full install, that when restarting jwm the icon mostly comes back. Sometimes it takes up to 3 restarts. I discovered this as mostly after having installed some program a restart jwm is to be done, and I was someactive in installing programs.

Some interaction with something maybe.

This was an old problem with JWM, that was solved by giving a width size notation in /root/.jwmrc-tray for freememapplet's Swallow. Delaying the start of freememapplet has been tried also, as is done with blinky.

<Swallow name="freememapplet" width="34">
freememapplet
</Swallow>

This was drop on the earlier test versions. In the newest Puppy it mostly doesn't show up to often. A restart of x normally fixes it. Of late, I have not had it occur in Puppy 4.1 and the width was added again to it(which means nothing, I may have not hit the wrong combo).

Good Luck, Kal

Thanks Kal for that info.
width="34" is already in my 4.1 install.
So I should merely replace freememapplet replace by freememappletdelayed then.

Anyway now I have discovered that after one or more succeeding jwm restarts I can live with it.